WEEK IN RELIGIONBen Ammi Ben-Israel, the founder of the African Hebrew Israelites movement, died at age 75 on Dec. 27 in Israel.Born Ben Carter in Chicago in 1939, Ben-Israel said that some black Africans were descended from the biblical tribe of Judah. He took a group of followers, most of whom hailed from Chicago, to settle in the West African country of Liberia in the late 1960s. The group later migrated to Israel.

The tail section of the AirAsia passenger jet that crashed late last month is upside down and partially buried in the sea floor, and experts are trying to figure out how to remove the plane's black boxes from it, an Indonesian official said.

Police hunted for three heavily armed men with possible links to al-Qaida in the military-style, methodical killing of 12 people Wednesday at the office of a satirical newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad.

Ever heard the story about the house on the haunted hill where a group of paranormal researchers died in madness and terror? What about the one where a psychotic killed a whole sorority on Halloween?Fans of